Combined sand-sprinkler and vehicle.



W. H. POWERS.

COMBINED SAND SPRINKLER AND VEHICLE.

- APPLICAIION FILEU SEPT-27.1915.

1,177,052. Patented Mar. 28, 19w.

WITNESSES: lNl/E/VTUR partly'im I h mg port: of an automobile with-whichmy 'invention is associated; Fig. 2 is a plan \vie'wof parts of thesame; Fig. 3 is an en- Tlarged view'. oi parts of the same in verticalqsection onbroken.linem, w of Fig. 2; and

wnmnjm n. rowers, or smmrm, wasnmeron, Assmnon or ONE-1:1

rn'o Joan E.

REED, F SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

comnmnn SAND-SPRINKLER m vEnIcLE. v

v Sp eclficati"etters Pateht. I Patented Mar; 2%, 11916,

Application am September 27', i915. serial no. 52,785. I

Toall z qhont itgmiy"concern: Be it known. that I,'-WILLIAM H. Power's,

citizen of the United States, "residing at Seattlelin the county, ofKing and State of 5 Washington, have invented a certain 'new 7 anduseful Improveine'nt in -Combined'Sand- Sprinklers and Vehicle's,-'ofwhich the following,is'a'specification p My invention relatestoimprovements in embodied in vehicles,and the object of my improvementsis toprovide a vehicle, as,

required times during the travel of said. vehicle, to sprinkle sand,or'othen'gritty mateadvance thereof,"whereby when saidvehicle isturnedfrom'a straightcourse and centrifugallforcecauses itswheels to depart'from their; normal pathf then-the tires of said wheels may engagewithisnch adjacent sandsprinkledportions ofjs 'aid road-bed, said'wheels thereby being prevented from skid ding' farther from the rnormal path.

1 i1 accomplish this object by devices illus ;trated the accompanyingdrawings where-- Figure view in side elevationi 'and lengthwise verticalsec'ti0n'show valves 18] of the: nozzles 13' :while' the rear, end of"the lever 22 is articulated W-ith Q-one Iendtofja'f' connecting bar 24which extends 1' Fig.4 is a fragmentary view in'vertical'sec-4Q-tion'off parts o'fjthe' same on broken line y, 7

-. 4] 'ofLI figJ-L 2 Referrm Ito the throughout whibhflike. referencenumerals, indicate like fpfiits, fiindicatesthe pn'eumatictires of the'5 'e wh elf 'h" .7 6 :offfan automobile} e 1 fastene gtol the undersupportv the rear [end lovideil with af rear. seat-"'Tto' op tor-7sresponse to the movements of, a lever,- at

"f and 26' 1 towhichfisjei'tic articnlated 4 with egh'an obl rg'jh er'bi. eri@endebbveaifoatbba 3k ii-"fr. n iof ej, seat, the projecting ppegnd 'gfr providedwith be-poiired to fill said container when said;v

portion 9. is removed.

Secured to a running'board "10on each side-of the body- 6, of theautomobile,'is a fender 11'to which is fastened a bracket 12 whlch isintegral with .a nozzle 13 within .whose mouth 1s a deflector 14 .ofangular ifor'm disposed with its apex projected in-' "watil'dilmas shownin Fig. 3, thu's'to form two on e assageways 15' and, 16f'w'hose sidewalls are outwardly, which passageways ,-municatesjwith a conduitpipe17. I

Within the nozzle'f13 is a, shut'ofi slide- 15 and 16 unite at the apeirof said deflector- 14 to form a single passageway which comvalve 18"which is operatively disosed to;

control th; passageway leading om the conduit pipe 17 into thetwofpassageways 15 and 16 whereby sand-"from the conduitpipe 17 maybepermittedlto flow into the two passageways 15 and 16' at adesired rateor it vholly shnt ofi' therefrom as; may be dc SITE. The nozzles 13 aredisposedeach directly in front of the peripheryfofa difi't rent one,ofthe tires, 5 and are; integrally connectedby a transverse brace-bar 19 to the central portion of -whi ch brace-bar 19 is'cpivoted, by a pivot bolt 20, two lever-s21 and 22,, and the rear end of-the lever 21 isarticulated. with end ofthe adjacent one of the shut 0E slide to and is;articulated with; the inner, end of the .sl' 'nt ofi slide valvle 18 ofthe.

. he gferwardends" euhe levers. lane: 22"

are articulated respectively.

d, he rear Ward-1y to. apoin .pivotallymountedfon b tlever ,28 bein togle-links' h-extendsifon "1t forward vend. is i vet- 28 'which l is .35one end of az-connecting '"bar .23 which eX- tendsto-and 'is'articulated;with the 'inner v necting rod 27 to actuate the togglelinks 2 5 clearlyin Fig.

and '26 to cause them to move the levers 21 and 29 thus to draw inwardlythe connecting moved backwardly when the operators foot to move the shutoff valves 18 to close the is disengaged from the foot-piece 32 therebypassageway in the nozzle 13, I have provided a helical-retractile spring34 which is. 1 connected between the brace-bar 19 and the toggle linksand 26 toadapt it to tend I always to maintain the toggle links. in aposition 'tokeep the shut 01f valves 18 in I their positions to closethe passageways through the nozzles 13 in an obvious manner. The flaredwalls of the mouths of the nozzles'13and the respective deflectors 14disposedtherein adapt said nozzles 13 to cause isand -flowing-;-therethrough.to spread only overthose portions-of the surface of theroad-bed on-each side of the normal paths of the tires 5 when the shutoff valves 18,are

wide open thus to preventskidding from the normal" path, butjwhen suchshut .oif valves 18' areonly slightly opened then sand, havmg llttlemomentum, will drop directly downward on 'to-the normal paths of thetires 5 thusto increase the traction'of the.

tires 5 as they .travel over their normal Manifestly any form ofcontainer may be subst tuted for the container 5 and it may be disposedin one of diiferent positions in an -.-a 'ut0mobile; and the nozzles 13ma belprovided with difl'erent forms of oot-lever actuated shut ofivalves and otherparts may "be *changedfin. forms, dimensions and ar- 1'rangement" without departing from the spirit oimy invention;

Whatl claim isz In a device of the class described, the com- Wheels ofsaid automobile; a brace-bar se'- cured to the chassis of saidautomobile in a position transversely thereof to extend from the lowerend of one of said conduit pipes to the lower end of the other conduitpipe; a

slide valve secured to each end'p'ortion' of said brace-bar andconnected with the outlet end of the adjacent secured to the undersideofeach of said slide valves, said nozzle having two flared outlets -toadapt it to diffuse sand flowing downwardly therethrough; twoleversdisposed crosswise of each other, and pivotally 'fulcrumed to thecentral portion of said bracebar; two connecting bars disposed each tobination with an automobile, of a receptacle conduit pipe; a nozzlepivotally connect the rear end of a different one of said levers withthe slidable shut-01f member of adifi'erent one of said slide valves; apair of toggle links pivotally connected to and extending between theforward end portions-of said two levers; a foot lever pivotallyassociated with the forward portion'of said chassis and disposed toextend upwardly to adapt it to be accessible to an operators foot; aconnecting rodhaving one of itsiendsgarticulated with said foot v.

A. D., 1915. v 5 r WILLIAMH. POWERS.

-Witnesses: I r

A. HAsKINs, BENJ. F. SoU'rHnR.

